The new Labour Party mainstream for the 21st Century

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Consider Marx's theory of exploitation. The accumulation of capital doesn't magically happen. It has to be advanced to set up the infrastructure of a business to make goods or provide services to a perceived market. And to start the ball rolling, any firm needs people. Trying to make a living from scratch typically begins with … Continue reading Racism and Capitalist Exploitation

I’m alright Jack, everything's rosy, I've got a nice car and my home is cosy. I can't understand why there's folk on the street They should go to work and put shoes on their feet. I'm alright Jack I've got plenty of money, I buy the best clothes and local-sourced honey. I don't know why … Continue reading Jack

Forgetting the branding war for a minute, there are a number of serious discussions we need to have on the Labour (and broader) left. It starts with an acknowledgement of where Corbyn’s victory came from: it didn’t come as the result of years of patient building on the Labour left in the lead up to 2015. If it had, we may have had more of a foothold in the Labour Party as a whole. It came about as a result of a ‘perfect storm’: a disillusion with establishment politics, both within and without the party; the ineptitude of alternatives on the right of the party; a union movement battered by austerity and looking for a fightback and a fantastic campaign which had learnt the lessons of the activism of the post-2008 era, including social media, digital campaigning, phone banking and volunteer activism on the ground.

The railway system in the UK is in crisis, the price to travel by train has hit an all-time high and we now have some of the most expensive fares in Europe. On Southern, Rail, the long dispute over Driver Only Operation has led to further strike action and misery for commuters. On the Midland … Continue reading Railway blues – a new age of the train?